Honda Europe saves time and money by eliminating duplicated work through its centralized social media platform. But localized control still lets individual markets target and personalize experiences to meet the unique needs of their customers.

Editing Images with Natural Language:
Photo editing can be a challenging task, and it becomes even more difficult on the small, portable screens of mobile devices that are now frequently used to capture and edit images. To address this problem we present PixelTone, a multimodal photo editing interface that combines speech and direct manipulation. We observe existing image editing practices and derive a set of principles that guide our design. In particular, we use natural language for expressing desired changes to an image, and sketching to localize these changes to specific regions. To support the language commonly used in photoediting we develop a customized natural language interpreter that maps user phrases to specific image processing operations. Finally, we perform a user study that evaluates and demonstrates the effectiveness of our interface.

In his continuing series on the new Spark components in Flex 4.5, James Ward demonstrates how the new Formatters simplify the process of displaying common data types as localized/internationalized and human friendly strings.

Julieanne Kost shows you the power behind the new features in Adobe Camera Raw. Discover how to make non-destructive localized corrections as well as create special effects using the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, and more.